#nottrump

Here are the 10 poet features we chose from our #NotTrump series, which you can read individually below:

Gregory Crosby

Carolyn Zaikowski

Chris Roberts

Eileen Murphy

Angie Sijn Lou

Chris Antzoulis

Nathan McClain

Kristin Chang

Laura Bucceri

John Maher

god is a 12 year old girl

It’s night one of Aquarius season & the road is bleached with moon & spit. I'm looking at my bangs crusted like a helmet to my face. I’m looking to kill the president of the USA—if not the tower, the hallway, if not his ghost, his hands. A boy told me once he thought all girltears were black cause he only saw his sister cry with mascara on, that same eye leaking & leaking. I told him god is a 12 year old girl leaking all her hidden bitter tears on a kitchen table.

When I was 12 a nice white lady mistook me for her adopted daughter every day after school. She thought I looked just like her from the back but I know what I look like: a lotus flower with a sideways cunt, lying facedown on my bedroom floor remembering how bright animal eyes shine when they are reflected in car eyes. My mom doesn’t believe in abortions so she mailed me to Shanghai with a suitcase filled with breastmilk as soon as I was born. There are no stars in the womb but the stars in Amerika glimmer like cruel babies in the rain.

Last night I dreamt of a wet block of tofu falling down an escalator, step by step, into a shallow eternity. I know it meant nothing but it went on all night long. At the end of this escalator I witnessed god drowning at a kitchen table. She wants to know if Amerika is as holy as the textbooks say & I tell her: Amerika is a swimming pool filled with spit, a pile of puke on the nativity scene, a limp dick on Snapchat, an artificial plant dying under a depression lamp & I have been instructed to build a synthetic ontology in all the holy spaces left behind.